These are the Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting ICD-10-CM diagnoses, required under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Narrative changes to the guidelines from 2016 are in bold text. Among the changes: Incorporation of information on Excludes 1 notes, new information on the term “with”, which the guidelines indicate shows a causal relationship between diseases, and a clarification of code assignment based on the physician’s clinical judgment, vs. clinical criteria. Please review these new guidelines, as they will have an impact on your coding going forward. NOTE: The guidelines are effective 10-1-16.

On October 1, 2015 when ICD-10 goes into effect, the version in use will be the 2016 version. That’s because the yearly effective date for ICD-10 is October 1st. In order to ensure you’re ready, you can download this .zip file of the alphabetic index, tabular listing, E-Index, Drugs, Neoplasms and 2016 guidelines. In addition, there is a listing of all of the ICD-10 codes which are an exact duplicate of an existing ICD-9 code.

On October 1, 2015 when ICD-10 goes into effect, the version in use will be the 2016 version. That’s because the yearly effective date for ICD-10 is October 1st. In order to ensure you’re ready, you can download this .zip file of the alphabetic index, tabular listing, E-Index, Drugs, Neoplasms and 2016 guidelines. In addition, there is a listing of all of the ICD-10 codes which are an exact duplicate of an existing ICD-9 code.

On October 1, 2015 when ICD-10 goes into effect, the version in use will be the 2016 version. That’s because the yearly effective date for ICD-10 is October 1st. In order to ensure you’re ready, you can download this .zip file of the alphabetic index, tabular listing, E-Index, Drugs, Neoplasms and 2016 guidelines. In addition, there is a listing of all of the ICD-10 codes which are an exact duplicate of an existing ICD-9 code.